{"id":8113,"date":"2021-03-18T09:34:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T09:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/18\/european-shares-inch-higher-ahead-of-boe-decision\/"},"modified":"2021-03-18T09:34:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T09:34:32","slug":"european-shares-inch-higher-ahead-of-boe-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/18\/european-shares-inch-higher-ahead-of-boe-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"European Shares Inch Higher Ahead Of BoE Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> European stocks were broadly higher on Thursday as investors welcomed the U.S. Federal Reserve&#8217;s pledge to continue its easy-money policies.<\/p>\n<p>Market participants await the Bank of England&#8217;s policy meeting later in the day against an improving backdrop.<\/p>\n<p>The central bank is likely to keep rates on hold, but may emphasize its high bar for tightening monetary policy.<\/p>\n<p>The pan European Stoxx 600 rose 0.3 percent to 426.13 after declining half a percent on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The German DAX climbed 0.8 percent, while France&#8217;s CAC 40 index and the U.K.&#8217;s FTSE 100 were up around 0.1 percent. <\/p>\n<p>In stock-specific news, Ocado lost 2.7 percent despite the online grocer reporting a 40 percent surge in sales in the last three months.<\/p>\n<p>Vectura Group jumped 3.4 percent. The pharmaceutical company said it will pay a special dividend of \u00a3115mln during 2021 after receiving a big payout from GlaxoSmithKline over a US patent litigation.<\/p>\n<p>Public transport company National Express declined 2.4 percent after it swung to a pretax loss for 2020 on lower revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen climbed 3 percent on reports that the Czech government is negotiating with the carmaker on construction of one of its electric car batteries plants in Czechia.<\/p>\n<p>Patrizia AG, a partner for global real assets, advanced 1.6 percent. The company said assets under management were 47.0 billion euros in the fiscal year 2020, an increase of 5.7 percent year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p>Life science group Sartorius soared nearly 9 percent after raising its FY21 outlook. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>European Shares Inch Higher Ahead Of BoE Decision<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-03-18 09:34:32<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks were broadly higher on Thursday as investors welcomed the U.S. Federal Reserve&#8217;s pledge to continue its easy-money policies. Market participants await the Bank of England&#8217;s policy meeting later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1531412501799-1b4c354ca957?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2734&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/8114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}